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Report on the Legislative to Local Education 2025 Meeting

Education meeting Freedom to Read Jan 2025

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in January 2025.

News

Freedom to Read Event Produces Large Turnout

Is registration by party coming to S.C. as session opens?

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in January 2025.

News

Medicaid Expansion Moves Forward

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in January 2025.

News

A number of studies have reported that both the health of South Carolinians and the state’s economy would improve if Medicaid were expanded to include 360,000 residents with very low incomes.

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in April 2024.

Research & Studies

Health Care in Anderson/Oconee/Pickens Counties and SC

Submitted by Janet Marsh Member, LWVOP Health Care Team

The Supreme Court: What's Next Monthly Program

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in October 2023.

Press Mention

Photo: Chip Stapleton (left) and Holley Ulbrich, Co-President of LWVOP (right)

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Oconee and Pickens Counties Subscribed Articles

VICTORY: Virginia Ends Illegal Voter Purge Program

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in April 2026.

Public Statement

The commonwealth of Virginia recently agreed to stop its illegal voter purge program that disproportionately impacted naturalized citizens on the eve of federal elections.

League of Women Voters of Michigan Files Brief to Stop Justice Department from Obtaining Private Voter Data

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in April 2026.

Public Statement

Pro-Voter Groups Move to Join Louisiana’s Lawsuit Seeking Additional and Illegal Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote in Federal Elections

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in April 2026.

Public Statement

A coalition of pro-voter organizations filed a motion to intervene as defendants in Louisiana v. EAC.

The SAVE Act and Other Voting Barriers for Survivors of Domestic Violence

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in April 2026.

Blog Post

Since the SAVE Act came to the floor of the US House in February 2025, the League has been educating voters on the heavy burden the bill’s requirements would put on Americans, including married women, rural communities, and military families. But the SAVE Act targets another community of eligible voters who already face institutional barriers when navigating our legal and advocacy systems: survivors of domestic violence.

Commentary: The dignity of SC girls and women

Submitted by South Carolina in April 2026.

Press Mention

SC Daily Gazette

Bill S.1095 treats every South Carolinian who can become pregnant as a second-class citizen whose body is subject to the demands of the state. It is intended less to protect children than to redefine the role of girls and women in the family and in society to conform to the wishes of a minority whose views are rooted in fundamentalist religious dogma and personal preferences regarding gender roles.

These have no place in our laws. South Carolina must trust its people, not legislators, to make the medically and ethically complex decisions that surround pregnancy.

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